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Colin Sackett printed this book. Thomas A. Clark provided a critical essay entitled "Landscape under the Stars" in which he indicates that Finlay rewrites Gomringer's "5 mal 1 konstellation" by substituting words from the pre-Raphaelite poet, Christina Rossetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Although this book includes several examples of experimental poetry, the typeface utilized for the printing is uniformly bland to the detriment of the presentation of the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each print contains 2 lines of four words inside a square; the first word is always "beginnt" and the "third" word is always endet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a revision of a book published in 1977 which surveys 20th century art history with accentuation of works with visual/verbal imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ingeborg Bachmann contributes an essay on poetry in which she reproduces select, prior published, concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ohel - Ruach and "Struktur-Bruch" that are depicted in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Solt analyzes Gomringer's concrete poem, "ping pong" in depth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cobbing describes the history of contemporary sound poetry and the techniques utilized by the poets. He concludes "The very diversity of sound poetry is in line with its emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the withering of external authority, on man as a communal and social animal, on communication as a life-giving activity, things which in this bureaucratic and techncratic age we need constantly to remember. This is Cobbing's essay for the ground-breaking exhibition, "klankteksten ? konkrete poezie visuele tesksten - sound texts ? concrete poetry visual texts - akustiche texte ? konkrete poesie visuelle texte." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reproductions of examples of concrete poetry; one copy printed on white and the other on yellow stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

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Bann discusses the history and development of the concrete poetry movement in this first broadly based collection of concrete poetry published in book form. Sections are devoted to Latin, Germanic and English poets. Particular attention is paid to pioneers such as Gomringer, the Brazilian Noigandres group and British poets Finlay and Morgan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 15 reproduces a colored calligram by Apollinaire that is held by the Sackner Archive in a limited edition of 10 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Unable to identify this poet in a Google search. Russell Kierzkowski contributes a brief history and definition of concrete poetry as quoted as follows. "Concrete poetry has taken root in the literary soil of the United States. Small presses are attempting to establish and develop this fresh medium. Concrete poetry is a positive response to an earnest demand for adequate methods of communication. For advanced methods of thought, typography and design are the essential tools of this international.rnovement that is exercising the many dimensions of poetry which have long been suppressed by the antiquated hierarchy of literature. Arnold Linton is a local artist concerned with this emerging art. A free-lance graphic designer and typographer, he utilizes his press - the hermit press by participating in the movement to validate concrete poetry as an artform. The hermit press is one of the many small presses making an important contribution in addition to the work in concrete poetry the...